Transmission-gearing.



A. N. ADAMS.

TRANSMISSIUN GEARING. APPLICATION FILED 1130.26. 1'911.

Patented Sept. 22, 1914.

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it known that'. N .Y,A;DAMS, a citwen oi the United; St-etes, residing,4 fet. Stockton, in thefcounbyuof SaIlJzOqull'. State of California, have invented@certain.4 new .fand useful improvements in flransinis'- sionfGen-ring;-.and I do declare. the follow-g #ing `to'be .a full, clear-end exeetileseripf 3 tiem?V of. .the seme, sucbf. as will .enable others i Tfhisg, invention Ivreletes to 'in'iprovenients ini gearingim:` motor .driven vehleles or'. .the likeg tbewobjecttof y.tithe'inveni'fon beingf to.

'produite i 'a trmmieeifn afring disposedl bhe-reen exlee the. ve.. @levende housfl ing within; the' differential. gearqoese. This transmissionrgearingfwill `have'. e novel direct driving .gearing combined with .the dit? .I

able speeds, such variable sp'ee 'gear meehaniemhaving asitsimainfel'ement eplurahty of: i. independent gears i i arranged.. in.; ai Vnone shape:` endfefzslidingichenge gege; movable OVQI'. .Seid-f oone-'geeirsto change the vspeed-` asi will.; eppearf 'Seid [Cene-gears have en internal? @hitch mechanism Vwhich. .will v' permit oi -a Sliding. geirrmovingfover the seme While they are in; motion .vvithoutcausing.

, interference.- I ,also 'provide ereversing geen mechenism disposed in eoperetivegre-.I

structed in a manner as will lappear. f

lAturther object .of the Vinvention is to i is a. sectional view taken on aline .of Eig. 1.

l' sueh; etrnietijiie .andrel-ative arrangement of.,

Referring now moregpartieulrlytothe characters of reference on the drawings,1 A

` cone .,shape d member..`. v shaft@ 32 and in' alinemet with itchfof thv 4beiirings orthe various shaftsy and vsleeves hefeinaterfdesoribed, s uch bearings having merely I IleCha.njica=-l. expedience,- hence no de-fv ltaileddeeeription of the same ,will-be given I .-1 I 'l j il@ numeral 2 'designates the main exle o f'the'wehiele; provided with? th. 'susuel diff; ferential 'geering 3 which beingzeommonly usegwilll not be described lin de-teil; in .this speeifi'otion. `In applying my improved invention, 4 designates' the mein driving.

shtfroltheaengine of the vehicleA and 5 the.' geen: on the .'endthesreoif;l which geer y; .intermeshes with the lerger geen `6 loosely moBtednnthe s1eeve 7..on one of the partis nf'ythe differential gears.

4ivin-g:ineclienisnn this gear- 6 has. its face 'providedwith teeth 8 adapted to' engage .teethj 9,011 r.the edge of e drumv 10 '.keyedto one of .thel members'll von thedierential.

gearing.;v Thisfdruxdw has a curvin lug. 12 on 1ts,.rear face while' 13isa shift ever heving a. luglfi. edeptedto engage the lu '1 2 .to drijvethe teeth 9 into enggigement wit the ,teeth `8;jvvhen it isl deeiredjto have a. direct. drive, said nem'loer` 13 hei-vingen operating-,lever 15 'provide f vvith .a foot.

member 16., disposed at any-:desired pm: Oilfh@ vehicle@ e f variable speed gearing isicnstru'cted vas .v, follovvs.; to-wit; secured a's at-'com nent part ofi the gear 6 is another gear 1 .drive ing a.. gear- 18, said last named gear being keyed to .en independent Vshaft l9, the1"e 4bey :ing also slidebly mounted' onl said shaft 1 9? :u .geer 2() having a :oller 21 over whichV eyokeprojeeting -thlough e 'Sloli'fQZ `inthe -case-1 and being mounted 'on brf 2. elf pluralit)l7` of rack, teeth. 24

a. .elite M 'provided with. Aen l va. link 28,p :rcnfidedl .with 'h .lever-QQ ede; 'te 'to move through .teeth lf corresponding in I'Luinber to the' number of di'erentpositiens tjobe assumed lby; [the eer 20.

I Aurt er form sftliei-bomponentfpertof the 0' 'gears 33,. said gears all being beveled en jeever 7 what I termen outer sheftf turnebly mounted on which .are a p lueli'ty'- having their inner sides projecting' and extended toward the lower end of the 'fric'tional contact'with the rollers 35 and on the shaft 37. Since the sleeve 7 and outer which thus make one ofv saidirecesses wider than the other owing to the"circul'arv shape of the 'uter shaft 32. Tithlihese recesses are rollers v and owing ,toI the recesses34 being l,smaller at oneA endpthali at the other` when tliegearsf33 turnin one direction these rollers wedgebetween .said gears 33 and said outer shaft 32, thus turn-fI in said outer shaft and, .viceversaghin gomg the' Other Way the rollers would move into, the. larger portionl of the,recesses-34c andthe gears 33 would move freely around the outer shaft 32 without moving it. Similarly if' one of the gears should move faster than the other, then the'said faster moving 'gear {Would turn ,the outer' shaft by reason of' the frictional contact of the rollers 35 while the other gears would remain com'- paratively idle. 7 To causethe variable speed ofthe vehicle,

the "geari20, by the shifting meansas de scribed, would be `-moved along. to engage irstfone of the-gears33 and thenthe other.

To"increase the speed this operation would b'e' commenced at the'upper end o'f the cone cone'and to decrease the speed this operationl would be reversed. By vreason of the fric-l tional roller contact described, 'as the gear 20 leaves one gear and moves intol mesh 4with the 'adjacent gear ofalesser diameter, it will drive thel geary into which :it moves at a faster rate than the vgear whic'hit'fis leaving.

This will 'have theeffect of' rotating the" gear into which it is moving away `from the this feature will permit of the intermeshing of the gear 20. without anyfdangerfof wrenching or stripping the gearv which would be the case if'the gear was made solid shaft 32 are rigidly attached'to thedifferen- -verse'motion I' provide `an idle -gear 37 mounted ton the shaft 36 land engaging another gear 38 on the sleeve 7. Saidl gear 38' is adapted to engage an internal'roll'e'r clutchf disposed lin the opposite directionfrom those of the cone gears 33- and when the reverse motion is desired the lever 29 is shiftedinto a recess 39 in the member 30, which throws 4- theI quadrant l26 farther around and forces the geary 2O to engage the gear 37 and thus driving the gear 38, and hence the sleeve 7 causes the, desired reverse motion.

lAs will appear, a reverse application of i the cone of' gears and theygear that slides over 1t remains entirely Within the scope of l gear, 'as' described.

fed .to drive thesliding gear or the sliding gear-may be adapted to-dr-iye the .cone gears asmaybe-found most adaptable,

From the foregoing description it will be readily seen that I have produced suchla device as substantially fulfils the object of the invention as 'set forth herein,

While this specification sets forth in jde- .tail the present and preferred' construction' ofthe-device, still in practice such deviationsfrom such detail may-beresorted to as dofnoty form a departure Afrolnt-he spirit of the invention.-

*Having thus described my invention what'.

I claim asnew'an'd useful and desi-re" to secure byiLetters Patent is i LA "device of' ,the charactery descrilnd- 80 comprising a driven member, a beveled gear turbanly mountedl onv said driven: member, `another beveled `gearsecuredvlto 'said first named beveled vgear, an independent shaft,

a gearkeyed to saidinde'pendentf'shaft and 85 engaging said last -named 'beveled-gear, a plurality of beveled ears mounted 'on said `driven member, a'sli ing gear on' said inde- :pendent shaft adapted to engage said plural- A.ity-'fof beveled'gears, a beveled gear keyed 90 tfsaid driven membenan independent gear mounted independently of all of said gears and engaging said last named beveled member, said slidingf'gear being adapted to engage said :independently mounted gear, as 95 described.

`\2.' 5A vdevice "of the character described comprising adrive'n member, abeveled gear turnably mounted onf saidV driven member, another'bev'eled gear securedl to said first 100 'named beveled-gear, an independent shaft, 'a gear keyed -to said shaft and engaging said 'last named beveled gear, a plurality o bev- 'eled gears mounted on said driven member, a sliding'gear on said 'shaftadapted to en- 105 `gage' said plurality of beveled gears and means for drivingfs'aid rst named beveled '3. A device 'of the character described comprising-a' driven member, la beveled gear. 110 turnablyl mounted,l on said driven member,- beveled lgear keyed on'said driven' member,- Qan independently' mopnted gear engaging4 said last' named beveled rear, an inde end" ent shaft, 4a gearmounte" lon said sha engaging 'said iirst named beveled'gear, vand a sliding gear 'mounted on said shaft and `being adapted toengage said'independently mounted gear, as described. I

In testimony whereof I hereunto affix my signature in presence of'two witnesses.

ALFRED NADAMS.

Witnesses: 4. i' i' l l JosHUA B. WEBSTER, 

